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The 10 Weirdest Drug Stories of the Month

By Jim Edwards

Updated on: September 30, 2010 / 12:17 PM EDT / MoneyWatch

Cockroaches make antibiotics! Tylenol kills snakes! Salmon infections are cured! It all happened in September 2010 in the pharmaceutical business ...

Navy using Tylenol to kill snakes in Guam Dead mice stuffed with Tyenol are dropped by helicopter into the jungle in Guam in hopes of eradicating invasive brown tree snakes from around the base there. "The discovery that snakes will die when they eat acetaminophen was a huge step forward," said Anne Brooke, conservation resources program manager for the Naval Facilities Command.
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Finally, a vaccine for salmon bacteria!
Inoculation against the Piscirickettsia salmonis bacterium is sold to Novartis.
Forest Labs whistleblower loses wife, gains $10.9 million
Eight years of litigation stress cost Chris Gobble his marriage but in a few days a pretty big check will arrive and he can cry all the way to the bank.
Cockroach brains may be a source of antibiotics
No wonder the little blighters are so tough to kill.
Pfizer, Lilly decline to erect world's largest pole.
Town in Canada will not get $10 million from makers of Viagra and Cialis to put up record-setting, double-entendre laden flagpole.
Allergan lets 'trailer park lady' keep $460,000
She lost a lawsuit with the company but Allergan won't dun her for its costs.
A placebo is effective as a female libido enhancer
Insert your own commentary about what's going on in women's heads here.
Gout is cured! Wealthy gentlemen of the 1700s rejoice!
"The king of diseases and the disease of kings" finally has a treatment. (BTW, do NOT do a Google image search for "gout" before you eat lunch.)
Novartis claims meningitis vaccine 'halal'
Because if you're trying to prevent meningitis, obviously the most important quality of the drug is its religious status.

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